Databricks Platform Administrator

Databricks Platform Administrator

Primary Skill: Data Analysis

Location: Atlanta, GA

Job Type: W2

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

Responsibilities will include designing, implementing, and maintaining the Databricks platform, and providing operational support. Operational support responsibilities include platform set-up and configuration, workspace administration, resource monitoring, providing technical support to data engineering, Data Science/ML, and Application/integration teams, performing restores/recoveries, troubleshooting service issues, determining the root causes of issues, and resolving issues.

The position will also involve the management of security and changes.

The position will work closely with the Team Lead, other Databricks Administrators, System Administrators, and Data Engineers/Scientists/Architects/Modelers/Analysts.

This position will involve participation in on-call rotation for 24/7 support.

Education:

4-year College Degree preferably in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the administration, configuration, and optimization of the Databricks platform to enable data analytics, machine learning, and data engineering activities within the organization.

Collaborate with the data engineering team to ingest, transform, and orchestrate data.

Manage privileges over the entire Databricks account, as well as at the workspace level, Unity Catalog level and SQL warehouse level.

Create workspaces, configure cloud resources, view usage data, and manage account identities, settings, and subscriptions.

Install, configure, and maintain Databricks clusters and workspaces.

Maintain Platform currency with security, compliance, and patching best practices.

Monitor and manage cluster performance, resource utilization, platform costs, and troubleshoot issues to ensure optimal performance.

Implement and manage access controls and security policies to protect sensitive data.

Manage schema data with Unity Catalog - create, configure, catalog, external storage, and access permissions.

Administer interfaces with Azure AD and Amazon AWS.

Hadoop admin skills are preferred

Knowledge about Apache Kafka is desirable

Required Skills:

3+ years of production support of the Databricks platform

Preferred:

2+ years of AWS/Azure PaaS

2+ years of automation frameworks such as Terraform

2+ years of Hadoop administration (Cloudera/Hortonworks)

2+ years of Apache Kafka streaming platform administration

Kindly please share your resumes with srikar@isofttekinc.com or 707-435-3471

Qualification

Bachelor's Degree